Major Error Patterns + Strategies to improve them.

Major Error Patterns + Strategies to improve them.

1. Not studying:
2. 1. Nightly review of notes. 
   2. highlight information you don’t understand in your notes and schedule a time to ask your teacher to go over it with you.
   3. test yourself: If you can teach it to someone else, you know it.
3. Restating information a few different ways:
4. 1. question 3: “M. was the president of the National Assembly and he was important because he represented the National Assembly”
   2. 1. it is understood in the term ‘president’ that he represents the National Assembly.
5. Not knowing the names for events: 
6. 1. Estates General is not the National Assembly.
7. Wasting space with unnecessary words:
8. 1. “All men are created equal. That one is a good one. It attacks the law because for example back then not everyone had equal rights…”
9. Not reading the question correctly:
10. 1. Question 1: 
    2. 1. Listing events out of order.
       2. listing events that happened AFTER the Constitution was created.
       3.  Repeating info that will receive no points:
       1. "Answer: When the king realized that the financial problems could be solved by taxing the nobles, he went and did that"
    3. Question 2: 
    4. 1. no examples were given. 
       1. “one point stated that you cannot resist arrest if there was a proper reason. This one attacks feudalism again because the upper estates barely had arresting and killing done against them”  
       1. good point, it answers the 2/3 of the question. But you missed out on vital points by not giving an example.
       3.  "Everyone has the same taxes to pay: That tackles the feudal system because of how the nobles didn't have to pay taxes. ex: They didn't need to pay the tax for making wine with a press, but the 3rd estate had to."
       1. Much better: all parts of the question are answered.

“Dare, Dare Again, Always Dare”

The World’s Famous Orations. Continental Europe (380–1906).  1906.

I. “Dare, Dare Again, Always Dare”

Georges Jacques Danton (1759–94)

(1792)

Born in 1759, died in 1794; led the attack on the Tuileries in 1792; implicated in the “September Massacres”; helped to organize the Revolutionary Tribunal; Member of the Committee of Public Safety; overthrown by Robespierre.

It is gratifying to the ministers of a free people to have to announce to them that their country will be saved. All are stirred, all are excited, all burn to fight. You know that Verdun is not yet in the power of our enemies. You know that its garrison swears to immolate the first who breathes a proposition of surrender.
One portion of our people will proceed to the frontiers, another will throw up intrenchments, and the third with pikes will defend the hearts of our cities. Paris will second these great efforts. The commissioners of the Commune will solemnly proclaim to the citizens the invitation to arm and march to the defence of the country. At such a moment you can proclaim that the capital deserves well of all France.
At such a moment this National Assembly becomes a veritable committee of war. We ask that you concur with us in directing this sublime movement of the people, by naming commissioners who will second us in these great measures. We ask that any one refusing to give personal service or to furnish arms shall be punished with death. We ask that a set of instructions be drawn up for the citizens to direct their movements. We ask that couriers be sent to all the departments to notify them of the decrees that you proclaim here. The tocsin we are about to ring is not an alarm signal; it sounds the charge on the enemies of our country. To conquer them we must dare, dare again, always dare, and France is saved!

Note 1. Delivered in the National Assembly on September 2, 1792. Translated for this edition by Scott Robinson. Danton’s speeches offer a notable exception among the speeches of the orators of the French Revolution, in that they were delivered without previous preparation. The other orators carefully wrote out and read their speeches and then had them printed, “but Danton,” says Mr Stephens, “always improvised; he never drew up a report or published a single speech.” For the text of Danton’s speeches, we have to rely entirely on the reports in the Moniteur.

Note 2. Verdun surrendered on the day this speech was made.